ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE FOR INTERMEDIATE
UNIT 99. Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired
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Sometimes we use two or more adjectives
together:
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My brother lives in a nice new house.
In the kitchen there was a beautiful large round wooden
table.
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Adjectives like new/large/round/wooden
are fact adjectives. They give us factual information about age, size,
colour etc.
Adjectives like nice/beautiful
are opinion adjectives. They tell us what somebody thinks of something
or somebody.
Opinion adjectives usually go before fact
adjectives.
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Sometimes we use two or more fact
adjectives together. Usually (but not always) we put fact adjectives in this order:
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a tall young man (1 → 2)
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a large wooden table (1 → 5)
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big
blue
eyes (1 →
3)
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an old Russian song (2 → 4)
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a small black plastic bag ( 1 → 3 → 5)
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an old white cotton shirt ( 2 → 3 → 5)
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Adjectives of size and length (big/small/tall/short/long etc.)
usually go before adjectives of shape and width (round/fat/thin/slim/wide etc.):
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a large round table
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a tall thin girl
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a long narrow street
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When there are two or more colour
adjectives, we use and:
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a red, white and green flag
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a black and white dress
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This does not usually happen with other
adjectives before a noun:
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a long black dress ( not a long and black dress)
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We use adjectives after be/get/become/seem:
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Be
careful!
I'm
tired
and I'm getting hungry.
As the film went on, it became more and more boring.
Your friend seems very nice.
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We also use adjectives to say how
somebody/something looks, feels, sounds, tastes or smells:
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You look tired. /I feel tired. /She sounds tired.
The dinner smells good.
This tea tastes a bit strange.
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But to say how somebody
does something you must use an adverb (see Units 100- 101):
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Drive carefully! (not
Drive careful)
Susan plays the piano very well.
(not plays ... very good)
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We say 'the first two
days /the next few weeks /the last ten
minutes' etc. :
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I didn't enjoy the first
two days of the course. (not the two first days)
They'll be away for the next
few weeks. (not the few next weeks)
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EXERCISES
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99.1
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Put the adjectives in brackets in the
correct position.
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a beautiful table (wooden /round)
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___a beautiful round wooden table __
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an unusual ring (gold)
an old house (beautiful)
black gloves {leather)
an American film (old)
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_____________________________
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_____________________________
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a long face (thin)
big clouds (black)
a sunny day {lovely)
an ugly dress (yellow)
a wide avenue (long)
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_____________________________
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_____________________________
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a lovely restaurant {little)
a red car (old / little)
a new sweater (green /nice)
a metal box (black /small)
a big cat (fat / black)
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_____________________________
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_____________________________
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_____________________________
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long hair (black / beautiful)
an old painting (interesting /French)
an enormous umbrella (red /yellow)
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99.2
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Complete each sentence with a verb (in
the correct form) and an adjective from the boxes.
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Helen ___seemed upset_____ this morning. Do you know what was wrong?
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I can't eat this. I've just
tried it and it ________________.
I wasn't very well yesterday,
but I________________today.
What beautiful flowers! They ________________
too.
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You ________________. Have you
been out in the rain?
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James was telling me about his
new job. It ______________-much better than his old job.
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99.3
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Put in the correct word.
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This tea tastes a bit ____strange _______ (strange /strangely)
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I always feel _____________ when
the sun is shining. (happy /happily)
The children were playing _____________
in the garden. (happy /happily}
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The man became _____________ when
the manager of the restaurant asked him to leave. (violent /violently)
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You look _____________! Are
you all right? (terrible /terribly)
There's no point in doing a
job if you don't do it _____________ .(proper /properly)
The soup tastes _____________.
(good /well)
Hurry up! You're always so _____________.
(slow /slowly)
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99.4
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Write the
following in another way using the
first ... /the next ... /the last ... .
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the first day and the second
day of the course
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the
first two days of the course ____
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next week and the week after
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the
next two weeks ___________
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yesterday and the day before
yesterday
the first week and the second
week of May
tomorrow and a few days after
that
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questions 1, 2 and 3 in the
exam
next year and the year after
the last day of our holiday
and the two days before that
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